[FM Discuss] Modified PDF for MYOSA

[Rebecca Hargrave Malamud]

Hello, James -

We're not seeing the CSS changes you describe using Objavi - when we 
download the transformed PDF from the link below, all of the styling 
information is stripped out. I experienced this same phenomenon a couple 
of weeks ago when I tried to upload our custom-designed ePub to generate 
a PDF.

As I understand it, Booki does not support @font-face or embedded fonts 
- these bugs are reported in the Booki trac -

http://booki-dev.flossmanuals.net/report/1?asc=0&sort=ticket

As it stands right now, the Rural Design Collective will be using 
PrinceXML to convert our custom-designed PDF to make sure it looks the 
way Christopher designed it.

Regards,

Rebecca Malamud



James Simmons wrote:
> I have made a stab at doing an improved style sheet for "Make Your Own
> Sugar Activities!" to get the fonts in the printed book to a readable
> size.  What I've done is to change the font size of both normal and
> formatted text to 12pt, remove the style that translated headings to
> all upper case, and changed the font family to Century Gothic.  To get
> the code listings to fit using 12 pt Courier I'm going to have to
> print out all the pages and very carefully re-wrap lines that get
> truncated.  I will start on that tonight.  The results I'm getting so
> far are here:
>
> http://objavi.flossmanuals.net/books/ActivitiesGuideSugar-en-2010.08.24-21.20.26.pdf
>
> If you're thinking about taking the MYOSA CSS challenge this is what
> you'd have to compete with.  I'm pretty well sold on using 12 pt
> courier for the code samples, plus 12 pt font for the Normal text.
> The rest of the styles are up for grabs.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
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